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Interpretation of “office.”
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2. The word “office” shall for the purposes of this Act include any clerkship or subordinate employment held by any person in the Supreme Court in Ireland, or any division or office thereof.
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Amendment of s. 73 of 40 & 41 Vict. c. 57.
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The Lord Chancellor, the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Chief Baron, or any three of them, of whom the Lord Chancellor shall be one, with the concurrence of the Treasury, may from time to time, as occasion may require, exercise all or any of the powers conferred by the said section of the principal Act as fully as if no time had been prescribed in that behalf in the said section, notwithstanding that any office affected thereby may have been previously determined to be requisite, or that the salary, designation, or duties of any office may have been previously fixed under the powers conferred by the principal Act or by this Act, and also notwithstanding that the patronage thereof may be vested in an existing judge: Provided always, that no existing officer shall receive a less salary than heretofore, and that no officer to be hereafter appointed shall, during his tenure of office, have his salary reduced; and provided also, that any rights preserved by the principal Act to any officers existing at the commencement of that Act shall not be affected by this Act.
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[1 The powers conferred by this section may be exercised by the Lord Chancellor, and the Chief Justice, and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, or any two of them, of whom the Lord Chancellor is to be one, and may, on the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of Chief Baron, be exercised by the Lord Chancellor and the Chief Justice, 50 Vict. sess. 2 c. 6 s. 4.] |
